endure but the nature of our commitment will change we're negotiating an agreement with the afghan government the focus is on two missions training and equipping afghan forces so that the country does not again slip into chaos and counterterrorism efforts that allow us to pursue the remnants of al qaeda and their affiliates training forces ok so in other words keeping troops on the ground beyond twenty fourteen gotcha and what was the other thing counterterrorism efforts are right that sounds specific only not at all and could mean anything from special ops to military contractors to they all but surprising drones speaking of drones since the drone came won't utter the word this year alone their record forty fourth i'm sorry four hundred forty seven drone strikes in afghanistan which killed thousands of people as u.s. air force data has revealed in fact a defense news report on army drone purchases indicates that we can expect america's hands i mean unmanned wings to remain in the country well into the future but moving on obama did make a point to talk about his commitment to the world's poo